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Clive Palmer attacks Campbell Newman

After cutting his ties with Queensland's Liberal National Party, mining billionaire Clive Palmer has delivered a stinging attack on Premier Campbell Newman likening him to African dictator Idi Amin.

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EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Mining billionaire Clive Palmer has cut ties with Queensland's Liberal National Party and he's delivered a stinging attack on Premier Campbell Newman. Mr Palmer was suspended from the LNP earlier this month after a long-running feud with senior Government Ministers. Last night he announced his resignation from the party on Lateline.

Today, he likened the Queensland Premier to an African dictator and said the State Government was being undermined by nepotism and paid lobbyists.

CLIVE PALMER, MINING MAGNATE: I just want to say to you now that the current Government is much worse than anything that was around at the time of the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Make no mistake about that. You'll have Government funding going directly to Government members but he'll seek like Idi Amin to extend the term automatically of elected members of parliament so that they can't be challenged or scrutinised. These are not the things of democracy, this not what our country is made of.

EMMA ALBERICI: The mining magnate says he'll reveal more about information of the inner workings of the Queensland Government over the next few weeks.